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  1. Broithe
    Where do you stand on Cycle-Football..?
  2. Broithe
    Bet they don't think much of it, either..?
  3. Broithe
    ..gentlemen..?
  4. Broithe
    I was going past a local school last year when there was some after-school football training on, including one girl of about nine. She took down a lad twice her size with a (legal) sliding tackle that would have made Norman Hunter wince. If she'd come at me, I would have just let her have the ball....
  5. Broithe
    Footballers do get testing for various drugs - if they can remember... http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/3333091.stm
  6. Broithe
    Tax exile..?
  7. Broithe
    Available as spares - http://www.ehattons.com/33075/Bachmann_UK_36_062_Branchline_Class_150_Drawbars_x4_/StockDetail.aspx
  8. Broithe
    I'm glad you got sorted out - but I was really looking forward to your Irish layout. Good luck with the trams - and do let us see what happens...
  9. Broithe
    That looks easy enough to model for prototypical authenticity.
  10. Broithe
    If we played our banks off against theirs then it might be a fair contest...
  11. Broithe
    The stop for the old goods siding at Ballybrophy never got upgraded with the rest of the station - Then it was disconnected from the rest of the track a few years ago.. I wonder how old that piece of wood is?
  12. Broithe
    I've put this up before - and I'll put it up again, no doubt..
  13. Broithe
    Most of Frederick Forsyth's humourous short story Sharp Practice takes place on a Heuston to Tralee train.. Although they didn't seem able to find a suitably accurate picture for the cover..
  14. Broithe
    B&Q-people might understand better if you call it a laminate cutter, there is a suitable blade for a Stanley knife, but they're rare to find. You can make your own, it's just a matter of ploughing a v-shaped groove. Olfa stuff tends to be found in art shops. Perspex will plane with a very fine setting, to chamfer the corners, and then a little rub down will prevent excessive laceration...
  15. Broithe
    If you can find one of these Olfa cutters they are very useful for grooving plastic sheeting prior to snapping along the line to break them. You pull it along to 'plough' a groove in the plastic. They're also useful for grooving to represent planking, etc..
  16. Broithe
    I should mention that it's worth spending some time on the finish of the top edge - if you don't want pools of blood as significant elements of the landscaping..
  17. Broithe
    The stuff in the pictures was cut to size, but it's fairly easy stuff to cut yourself - either by a jigsaw, circular saw - or by scoring and snapping like glass, if it's a straight cut. Leave the protective film on until the last moment before you fit it. It was 3mm, I think. Ask for polymethylmethacrylate if you want to seem really knowledgeable..
  18. Broithe
    I put some two-inch Perspex round a friend's and he got his money back the first time that it caught his live steamer and saved it from meeting the slabs. Being clear you hardly notice it and re-railing is almost as simple as if it wasn't there. It'll take a fair curve, too. Worth considering..
  19. Broithe
    Always remember that, even if you make a mess of a container, you can still just shove it in at one side and hope that nobody notices...
  20. Broithe
    And this one - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_A-40
  21. Broithe
    You would have to be sure of where you were going - it wouldn't be easy to reverse it back out.. I vaguely remember them abandoning one in Alaska and some chap then bought it with the idea of getting it going again. Edit:- Right, it was bought by a chap called Steve McPeak, a 'daredevil' along the lines of Evel Kneivel, his main trick was riding a 100 foot high unicycle - but it doesn't look like he got very far with repairing it...
  22. Broithe
    The Americans had a few goes at similar things - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overland_train e.g. :-
  23. Broithe

    I'm new!

    Broithe replied to Dave's topic in General Chat

    Welcome, you'll soon feel old..
  24. Broithe
    It also went to the Isle of Man - which is technically not part of the UK.
  25. Broithe
    I almost believed you. I've not been well today..
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